Jacqueline Elley - Visual Artist

Detenebrate

Detenebrate: to free from darkness or obscurity.

New Plymouth artist Jacqueline Elley works with light and muka to transform the Open Window Gallery space into a light box.
Muka is a processed flax fibre traditionally produced in Taranaki both industrially and by hand. Exploring the tensions between surfaces/containment, nature/culture and illumination/darkness, this site-responsive installation alludes to Maori and Pakeha histories and treatment of natural resources.
Elley graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Otago Polytechnic School of Art in 1999 and was awarded the painting prize the same year.

Curated by Meredith Robertshawe

Lighting Design, Sculpting, Visual Arts

2011
Diatom II

Description to come

Fine Arts, Visual Arts, Interior Design

2011
Clear water

Realist painting

Painting

2012
Exhale

One of a series of surrealist paintings responding to land use and impacts of modern civilisation on the environment. In this case the focus is the oceans and what we release into the ocean that harms it and all creatures that depend on it.

Painting

2012
Thinking spot, Pa hill, Hahei

Painting

Painting

2012
Break of Day, Hahei

Painting

Painting, Visual Arts

2012
Aldermans at sea

Description to come.

Visual Arts, Painting, Fine Arts

2011
DiatomVI

Description to come

Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Interior Design

2011

1 Feb 2012

Still a work in progress...

As I finish new work it will be displayed here on my new website. Eventually I will populate this site with an archive of earlier work but for now it's all fresh! I am working on commission paintings at present and planning an exhibition in New Plymouth in October 2012 at Kina.
If you're in New Plymouth you have until the 19th February to check out my installation "Detenebrate" at the Govett Brewster Art Gallery, Open Window space. Best seen at night.

Jacqueline.

EMAIL: jelley.art@gmail.com
PHONE: +64 21 2345960